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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 2777958, member: 652"]
I never said football spending was poor. Where did I?
I said the MetLife deal wasn’t necessary to keep us in the black financially. I said Gross used the deal to increase profits because it was a cash grab and raised profits that should have been higher if not for his high spending.
Basketball bailed Gross out. The spending in the AD was out of control it doesn’t mean we were in big time debt.
The financial mess came when we left the Big East and had to pay a 7.5 million dollar exit fee. That required a loan from the University schools bailing out the AD but again that Notre Dame deal wasn’t used to pay the exit fee. Gross took a cash grab from Notre Dame that was a mid major move pure and simple.
High major schools don’t do 0-2-2 deals.

If Gross fires GRob after year 3 instead of 4 he could have possibly needed the cash flow.
He kept GRob that extra year thus the argument he needed the money isn’t true. Marrone didn’t get the support sure but the AD wasn’t in deep debt. After the loan for the exit fee the University BOT tightened the purse strings for the AD but we never in red.
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